At 15, Cori ‘Coco’ Gauff is the star of Wimbledon. But young players often struggle to make a lasting impact
Watching the fearless shot-making and preternatural assurance of 15-year-old Cori “Coco” Gauff at Wimbledon last week, many of us found it irresistible to reminisce on what we were doing at the same age. Most of these reflections – a few of which have been collected under a hashtag: #mylifeatfifteen – offer some variant of drinking our bodyweight in Bacardi, copiously vomiting and then passing out.
The teenage experience of Gauff, who on Mondayplays former world No 1 Simona Halep in the fourth round, has a very different vibe. “You can kind of fake it until you make it, but I’m not faking it, at least right now,” she said last week, a week in which the American made her grand-slam debut, beat her hero and inspiration Venus Williams and became the most exciting new force in tennis for years, maybe decades.
Written by Tim Lewis
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/07/the-young-stars-of-tennis-by-tim-lewis under the title “Can Coco Gauff break past the tennis old guard?”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
